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HA&P Chapter 5
Words for chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adip- | fat |
| adipose tissue | tissue that stores fat |
| chondr- | cartilage |
| chondrocyte | cartilage cell |
| -cyt | cell |
| osteocyte | bone cell |
| epi- | upon |
| epithelial tissue | tissue that covers all free body surface |
| -glia | glue |
| neuroglia | cells that bind nervous cells together |
| inter- | between |
| intercalated disk | band between cardiac muscle cells |
| macro- | large |
| macrophage | large phagocytic cell |
| oss- | bone |
| osseous tissue | bone tissue |
| pseudo- | false |
| pseudostratified | tissue whose cells appear to be in thin layers, but are not |
| squam- | scale |
| squamos epithelium | tissue whose cells appear flattened or scalelike |
| strat- | layer |
| stratified epithelium | tissue whose cells occur in layers |
| cartilage | type of connective tissue in which cells are within lecunae and separated by a semisolid matrix |
| connective tissue | one of the basic types of tissue that includes bone, cartilage, and loose connective tissue |
| fibroblast | cell that produces fibers in connective tissues |
| muscle tissue | contractile tissue consisting of filaments of actin and myosin, which slide past each other, shortening cells |
| nervous tissue | neurons and neuroglia |
| neuroglial cell | specialized cell of the nervous system that produces myelin, communicates between cells, and maintains the ionic environment |
| neuron | nerve cell |
| osteocyte | mature bone cell |
| osteon | cylinder-shaped unit containing bone cells that surround and osteonic canal; Haversian system |